Every week, on a Friday, a star worker of the week is chosen from every class. This could be in recognition of hard work, attitude, effort or good behaviour! We have a celebration assembly where they are rewarded with a certificate. It was tricky to choose this weeks winners as all pupils have worked so hard since returning to school. Here are this week’s superstars… Jenson (Y1), Ella (Y2), Caitlyn (Y3), Callum (Y4), Skye (Y5) and Nathan (Y6).

Winners 15.9.17

Welcome back to all our pupils! It has been a really happy and busy start to the new term and we are really excited about the year ahead. We are having our Meet the Teacher event this Monday (10th of September) beginning at 3.30pm, where there will be an introductory talk by Mrs Watt followed by the opportunity to speak to teachers and staff in their classrooms.

Running alongside this, I am busy updating the school website and my aim is to create new year group pages which contain key information about your child’s class so that you can access important information quickly. Each teacher will create a document to introduce their class-information about P.E days, learning, teaching staff and homework can be found on there and can be accessed by clicking on the ‘Our Learning’ tab and finding the relevant class. We hope to have these finished and online by the end of next week.

As always, if you have any further questions please ask.

Wishing everyone a happy academic year!

Mrs J. Tateson

Deputy Head Teacher

Two brilliant pieces of sporting news for the website this week.

Our fabulous Y5/6 netball team (with the help of their fantastic coach-Miss Hunter) won all 5 games that they played at a recent competition at Dene House. They are through to the finals! We are so proud of all their hard work this year.

A big well done to Tilly Shippen for her achievements in dance-Tilly loves dancing and is really proud of how well she does in her classes and competitions. We are too Tilly!

If you would like to share with us any photos that make you proud, please tell Mrs Tateson. We could set up a page on our website to showcase them!

A huge thank you to all our supporters of last weeks Race for Life.

We don’t have a final total raised yet but we should have it tallied after half term.

So far…donations online are past the £400 mark! Incredible.  You can still donate online.

Thank you to each and everyone that have donated and turned out in the heat last Friday. I was so proud of the pupils and their families.

Enjoy looking at the photos from the day.

World Book Day Reading Competition
In conjunction with the opening of our new librabry, on Friday, we launched our ‘Get Caught Reading’ competition! We are challenging all our pupils to ‘get caught reading’ and take a photograph of them doing so. We discussed with pupils some different ideas in yesterdays World Book Day assembly. If your child would like to enter a photo/photos first take the photo and then print it out for them to bring into school. If this is not possible, class teachers can help with the printing of photographs. The deadline for this competition is the last week of March. Winners will be revealed on the last day before the Easter break. We will send out a letter in due course explaining the competition.

Today, we celebrated the official opening of our wonderful new library! We had a ribbon cutting ceremony and invited Charlie Ashcroft (and a Thornley superstar from each year group) to open the library and choose the first set of books to loan. Charlie was chosen as the ribbon cutting ceremony was his idea!

Each child from Reception to Year 6 was given their new library cards and loaned a brand new book. They were also given a chocolate heart to commemorate the fact that our library has opened on Valentines day.

Thank you so much to Miss Parker for all her hard work in getting the library up and running. We are hoping to establish a system after Easter where pupils can take their library books home. Pupils and parents will be able to loan and reserve books at home as well as adding book reviews!

Thank you to all the pupils who behaved so respectfully at our Remembrance Service on Friday.

Pupils created beautiful poppies and planted them in the soil at the War Memorial. We sang songs and said prayers of thanks to all the men who fought for our freedom in the First and Second World Wars and those men and women who continue to do so today in conflicts around the world.

Don’t they look beautiful?

We are so excited to currently taking part in Junior Librarian Training! Staff will be undergoing training in order to set up a loaning system in our new school library. Soon, pupils will be able to access the thousands of new books we have bought and take one home to use for a period of up to two weeks!

Pupils from Y4 and Y5 are going to be trained to be Reading Ambassadors to help with book loans in the library.

We are hoping to have some parent workshops before the end of half term where you can see how Junior Librarian can be accessed at home, for example reserving books and accessing linked websites and resources. There will be a chance for you then to help your child choose their first book. Dates to follow!

Well done to our winners of the name the library (Molly Matthews-‘The Book Den’) and our fabulous designers of the new logo.

Just a brief reminder that on Friday afternoon we are holding a coffee ‘afternoon’ where profits will be donated to the Macmillan cancer charity. We are asking for donations of biscuits and cakes for our coffee and cake afternoon and would like to invite you to come into school on Friday between 2.15pm-3.15pm to enjoy an informal catch up with your child in the school hall. All proceeds from this event as well as our tuck shop will go to charity.

We hope to see you there!

Mrs Tateson

(Deputy Headteacher)